Salt-shaker pulverizer.



F. E. TEVES.

SALT SHAKER PULVERIZER.

APPLICATION FILED MAYZZ. I914.

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WITNESSES 45 the shank is FTDEBIGK E. TEVES, OE GLEN COVE, NEW YORK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 31911 8'.

Application filed May 22, 1914. Serial No. 840,228.

To all whom z't may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK E. Tnvns, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Glen Cove, in the county of Nassau and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Salt-Shaker Pulverizer, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the W present invention has in vieware: To. provide a utensil. of the character mentioned with a device forpulverizing and delivering the contents of said utensil; to provide adevice of the character mentioned, simple in form and at a reduced cost;and to pro- 'vide a device of the character mentioned, the operationwhereof is thorough and searching.

m Drawings.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of a salt shaker, showing in conjunctiontherewith a pulverizer constructed and arranged in accordance with thepresent invention; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken on the line 2-2in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a detail view of a modified form of the invention.

m Description.

The shaker 8 is of conventional form and construction. A perforated cap9 is provided, having preferably a central perforation or hole in whichis set the shank 10 of the improved pulverizer.

It will be understood that while l[ have illustrated the shaker as of aparticular c011- struction, other forms of shakers may be employed inconjunction with the pulverizer. In each instance, however, the shank ofthe pulverizer is passed through the hole in the cap 9 prior toattaching a handle 11.

In the preferred form of the.invention as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of thedrawings,

extended to near the bottom of the interior of the shaker. The wire fromwhich the shank 10 is formed is twisted around said shank to form aspiral, the convolutions whereof ascend toward the handle 11, beforereaching which, or the cap 9, however, the wire is turned sharply towardthe center to form a loop 12, around the shank 10.

These coils, being unsupported intermediate the ends thereof, produce aresilient or yielding structure. In this manner, prothe pulverizer whenused vision is made to avoid blocking or jamming the pulverizer when inoperation. Said coils, if obstructed by a relatively rigid body ofmaterial, will yield and pass there- 0 over. Also it will be understoodthat by compressing the coils, by drawing outward the shank 10, in theform shown in Fig. 1,

or by forcing inward the shank in the form.

shown in Fig. 3, the salt or other contents of the shaker may beshattered, or broken if it has become set or solid.

In the modified form of the invention shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings,the central shank 10 is dispensed with below the clamping loop 12. Inthis form of the invention, the wire is twisted to form a double spiral,the pitch of the convolutions of which is increased to maintain theopening between the convolutions on a parity with those obtained in thesingle wire spiral. The resultant structure is that havin an open orcylindrical interior peculiarly adapted to facilitate in the functioningof to deliver or force from the body of the shaker the contents thereof.I

When a shaker is provided with a pulverizer constructed and arranged asdisclosed in the accompanying drawings, the operation is as follows Whenit is desired to break up or disintegrate the main body of the saltcontained in the shaker, this is accomplished by lifting the pulverizerby means of the handle 11, space being provided between the cap 9 of theshaker and the loop 12 of the pulverizer. If, however, the salt hasbecome damp and will not readily pass through the perforations in thecap 9, it may be forced therethrough by turning the pulverizer in theproper direction so that the coils 13 operate as conveyor members, andforce the salt or contents of the shaker through said cap. The pitch ofthe spiral 103 forming the coils 13 is sufficient to exert a pressure toor from the cap, as the case may be.

Claims.

1. A salt shaker pulverizer comprising, a continuous wire, shaped toform adjacent one end, a straight shank; and a spiral body co-axial withsaid shank, the other end of said Wire being inturned toward the axis'ofsaid spiral body and wrapped about the said shank.

continuous Wire, shaped to form adj aceli t tion to said pulverizer. Yone end, a straight shank; a spiral body 00- In testimony whereof I havesigned my axial with said shank, the other end of said name to thisspecification in the presence of 2. A salt shaker pulverizer comprising,a shank to maintain said cap in engaged rela- 10 wire being inturnedtoward the axis of said two subscribing witnesses.

spiral body and wrapped about the said t FREDERICK TEVES. shank; ashaker cap haying a central perfo- Witnesses: I ration forming a guidefor saidshank; and E.:F. MURDOGK,'

a handle rigidly mounted on the end of said PHILIP D. RoLLHAfis.

